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This month, Assistant Professor of Biostatistics Brian Healy, PhD gives insight into the future of clinical trials and model building in biostatistics. At the crux of study design innovation and new prediction model building, researchers should take advantage of this unique time in research and technology to do their best work.

Alexander Lin, PhD, from Brigham and Women’s Hospital, joins us to discuss the important research his lab is undertaking: using technology to perform a virtual biopsy of a brain that has been exposed to a traumatic injury.

We are joined by Giorgio Giatsidis, MD, from Brigham and Women’s Hospital, to discuss the field of plastic surgery. In our talk, Dr. Giatsidis talks about the common misconceptions related to the field and how his lab is working to develop new ways to reconstruct soft tissues.

We are joined by Taylor Kimberly, MD, PhD from Massachusetts General Hospital to talk about the important research his lab is doing regarding strokes and secondary brain injuries that occur after the initial trauma.

We are joined by Niroshana Anandasabapathy, MD, PhD from Brigham and Women’s Hospital, to discuss how her career path evolved from studying art history to today, a successful dermatologist who is studying why your immune system fails to see cancer.

Since the Affordable Care Act was passed, there has been a lot of debate about the pros and cons of the bill. Ben Sommers, MD, PhD from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, joins us as to talk about his work in health care reform and the national debate regarding the ACA.

We are joined by Tamarra James Todd, PhD from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, who will talk to us about how chemicals can lead to the development of chronic disease as well as the racial and ethnic disparities in environmental chemical exposures.

Hear from Mark Shrime, MD, PhD, of Harvard Medical School, on the challenges and hidden costs of making surgery available in low-income countries, despite overwhelming demand.

Bill Hanage, PhD, of the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, discusses efforts to predict when and how certain types of bacteria may become resistant to treatment.

Conor Evans, PhD, and Haley Marks, PhD, both from Massachusetts General Hospital, join us to talk about the S.M.A.R.T. bandage project. They describe how a visit to a military hospital in Texas led to the development of a product that would ultimately allow doctors to use a smart phone app to see how a wound or burn is healing.